MORRIS QUARTERLY AUTUMN - 1996



Another cricket season has come to a close as Summer has merged into Autumn. Aside from the actual playing on the cricket fields of North America, the profile of cricket here has been on the increase. Touring, festivals, league play and special competitions are evident and growing throughout the land. Competition for playing fields is under added strain with sports such as soccer and baseball. Other field activi- ties, as well as more women participating in a greater variety of sports, are adding to the demands on park facilities. In some cases, there are local governments and recreation boards that don’t want to have per- manent designations of use to given sporting activities. All of this pres- sure has brought about cause for compromise and sharing.

Likewise, the administrative facets of the American cricket scene had to compromise. For the good of the game, the more viable future of cricket in the USA and the enjoyment of players and supporters, the United States Cricket Association and the United States Cricket Federation have agreed to pool their resources in the direction of their latently discovered common bond. This was done without any imperatives from the International Cricket Conference to the credit of the former dissidents In February 1997 there will be an election to meld the two cricketing bodies into one. During the chill of Winter should be a good time for deep reflection and commitment leading to a Springtime renaissance of a new era for American cricket. More and suitable fields would be a good place to start.

Merrill H.J. Roth
President

YOUTH CRICKET

Recently, our President, Merrill Roth had the pleasure of presenting several classes with an introduction to cricket at the Cherry Hill High School-West in New Jersey. This opportunity arose upon the occasion of the school’s “International Day” for recognizing diversity in the area’s environs. Other sports, such as rugby and croquet, were part of the physical activities with food and costumes from different countries making up another portion of the program.

Several upper teen-aged students played cricket rather well. Most of the students’ knowledge of cricket was derived from reviewing films of the recent match between India and Pakistan in Toronto this September. They were also given copies of the up-dated version of Murray Haines’ instruction of “How to Watch a Cricket Match”. A few had asked where they could learn the game. A handful had actually played before. Our Association will provide follow-up information and names of teams to contact so that those interested youngsters may pursue their current mini-exposure to the game of cricket.

BON VOYAGE

Tom Kessinger‘63, popular President of Haverford College since 1988, has worked on or in Asia for more than 25 years first as a Peace Corps Volunteer, then a university-based scholar and teacher and as a staff member in two of the Ford Foundation offices in Asia. He serves on the boards of The Asia Society, The China Medical Board of New York, The Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships and the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute. He has written and published more than ten studies on Economic and Social Histories on India. Working in Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal has involved close collaboration with nonprofit organizations of those nations.

Tom, will be missed by the Administration, Professors and Students and most especially by the C.C. Morris Cricket Library Association who will lose a good friend and loyal advocate of Cricket. We hope he will keep in touch with us as he assumes his new position as General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a private secular foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland.

All good wishes, Tom Kessinger, as you sail forth on this new venture far from our shores. We are most appreciative of your interest and support of the Cricket Library and Association.

WELCOME

We extend a hearty welcome to Thomas R. Tritton, former Vice-Provost at the Uni- versity of Vermont, who assumes the Presidency of Haverford College on July 1, 1997 when the able and much admired Robert Gavin vacates his temporary post as Interim President which he assumed July 1, 1996. We look forward to introducing Dr. Tritton to our Library and treasures of world-wide cricket memorabilia. It is rumored that Tom Tritton has actually played cricket at least once! May his Presidency be one of great reward and pleasant adventure.

SERIAL CONTINUATION #3 - Final Installment: HAVERFORD’S BASEBALL CRICKET WARS - A Tale of Two Sports

by Greg Kannerstein‘63 ..........Part #3
(Parts #1 and #2 appeared in the Spring and Summer Newsletter issues)

The infection of baseball caused antibodies to form by 1909-10. The College Weekly trumpeted cricket’s cause. “Every spring some freshmen agitate to get baseball instituted, but by the time they become second or third year men most of them are in line with Haverford’s peculiar temperament and support better cricket.” Lester, Scattergood and other cricket greats were brought back in Spring, 1910, to tutor the cricket XI for Haverford’s fourth English tour. Even though The College News boasted, “I had rather make a clean cut to the ropes than knock all the home runs in history,” Lester worried the cricketers weren’t ready.

By 1911, even cricket’s journalistic voice admitted there “will probably be a baseball team in college this spring.” Several groups were playing and the faculty formed a team studded with distinguished scholars, bowing only in the final inning to the seniors, 7-6, on a disputed call at first. While faculty and students were cavorting in good fellowship on the diamond, racist malignancy attacked the cricket corpus. A 1911 match with Howard was canceled when it was learned that “not all (Howard’s players) were West Indians.” Some black Americans showed up for the match. “Some alumni felt rather strongly about the color-line so the match was dropped. Cricket, partly due to its own internal failings, seemed beset on all sides.

The battle was joined in 1912, the newspaper said a baseball team would be “one of the most harmful things at Haverford in a long time. (It would) sound the death-knell of cricket, for which we are famous both in this country and abroad and which we will be able to play long after we are too old to properly curse a baseball umpire.”

But loyalists were crumbling. By 1913, there were still four cricket squads and no baseball varsity at Haverford but few prep schools still played. Proponents asked Sharpless to defend their sport, but even he seemed perfunctory. He conceded that especially in length of games, “cricket fails where baseball gains.” By now, his major rationale for cricket at Haverford was that fathers of current students played it. He even called cricket “an elderly man’s game.”

Classes with several fine baseball players arrived in 1911 and 1912 - and diamond talent included the flower of Orthodox Quaker youth, bearing hallowed names of Stokes, Shipley, Steere and Cary. Those students broke down cricket’s last defenses against baseball. The frosh of 1912-13 beat everyone in sight including their sophomore campus mates, 21-10. Captain James Emlen Shipley was a fine pitcher and Isaac Steere ran down every fly ball and hit some home runs. In their sophomore year, the stars from the Class of 1916 beat the new freshmen 12-5 and Lower Merion High School, 14-12.

Cricket sent a team to England in the summer of 1914, despite the turmoil in Europe. They also conducted guerrilla warfare on the home front, incurring the student council to ban “batting, base running or knocking out flies” on the campus lawns. The virus was isolated on two designated fields some distance away.

Baseball, not to be deterred, went over the top in 1915. A college team of unusual merit was formed. All the cricket supporters could do was persuade members to call it the “Haverford Baseball Club” rather than “Haverford College Baseball Club.” Paced by two remarkable pitchers, freshman George Haines Buzby and sophomore Bob Gibson, the new team rolled up a 5-2 record - all this without a coach. Player-manager Bill Hannum held out the olive branch to cricketers: “(Ousting cricket) is not the purpose or intention of the club.”

The first editor of the Haverford News, cricketer Douglas Cary Wendell‘16 editorialized that “within the next six years cricket will be a dead letter as a major sport at Haverford due to lack of incoming material and lack of any competition.” A.G. Scattergood‘88 traced the decline of cricket to World War I’s effect on England, lawn tennis, golf, motoring and weekend parties.

Haverford baseball heroes were born daily, Hannum became “Home Run Bill” college counterpart to Philadelphia A’s star Frank “Home Run” Baker. Tad Sangree‘17 was a “savage hitter” (.381), Chic Cary a fine lead-off man, and Don Chandler‘17 the “leading sticksmith” (.500 season BA). Gibson homered against Penn Military and he and Buzby combined for 17 strikeouts vs. the cadets. By the end of 1915, students felt” the time has come to provide a professional coach (for baseball). A coach for next year means better baseball and a better schedule.”

April 10, 1916, will long live in Haverford baseball history. New coach Douglas Adams ‘96 was on hand, and the fine team of 1915 returned almost intact. But no one expected what happened on that day. Haverfordians pinched themselves to make sure the headlines were true: “Haverford Blanks Penn, 2-0; University saved from No- Hit Game in final Inning. College of Under 200 Gains Victory from Institution of 6,000!” Buzby and Penn’s star, Cross, matched seven hitless innings before the Fords scored with a brilliant display of “inside baseball” - a single, a perfect hit-and-run, a double steal, and a squeeze which produced two runs. Buzby allowed a hit and a walk in the ninth, but retired the final two Penn batters on ground balls.

The Haverford News rhapsodized, “Won’t that open their eyes?” The team went on to a 5-5 record against strong opposition. On June 5, the Athletic Association approved baseball as a “major sport” at Haverford and the first varsity letters were awarded. Buzby and his mates had made baseball a varsity sport at Haverford. World War I interfered with the rise of baseball at Haverford, but couldn’t stop it. The first spring training trip was to North Carolina in 1917, but the war forced cancellation of 1918 and 1919 seasons. George Buzby, who did so much to establish baseball at Haverford, never served the captaincy his teammates awarded him and died young. His name now graces the baseball MVP trophy. Sixty-eight years passed before Haverford beat Penn again, but in that time baseball took firm root.

Prophecies that baseball would kill cricket proved false. Sharpless retired in 1917, but presidential successors William Wistar Comfort and Felix Morlely, who had been baseball players, supported cricket as well. The team went to England in 1924 and consistently drew numerous candidates. Most cricketers between 1930 and 1980 learned the game at Haverford and though the sport seemed an anachronism, the College’s commitment did not waiver.

By the mid - 1980s, West Indian, Indian and Pakistani students raised cricket’s level of play to a standard Lester and Scattergood would have admired. The 1989 XI toured England and Scotland, preceded by a scouting report from octogenarian veterans of the 1924 trip, Howard Comfort and Murray Haines. Lester just missed his personal century, dying at 98, but lived to see Haverford’s cricket pavilion dedicated in his honor in 1964. Philadelphia cricket as a “gentleman’s game” disappeared from the sports scene. But more Philadelphians and immigrants from cricket-mad countries, play now than ever did in Lester’s time. Haverford cricketers now bear names like Desai, Mehta, Poonen and Sheth rather than Stokes, Scattergood and Morris but the spirit is the same. Baseball still flourishes as well. In 1990, a 6’5” Haverford baseball pitcher, Chaon Garland received a $70,000 bonus as a third-round draft-choice of the Oakland A’s. Cricket and baseball now happily coexist at Haverford and the passions that provoked the baseball- cricket wars of 1870-1920 lie buried under the green fields of the campus.

THE END OF SERIES

(Writers George B. Kirsch and Jerrold Caswell supplied valuable background. The late William Ambler ‘45, provided encouragement and quotations.)

NEW ANNUAL CRICKET SERIES

The Toronto Cricket, Curling and Skating Club vs Merion Cricket Club Festival which took place on October 11, 12 and 13, 1996 was very much enjoyed by all as the Canadians descended upon us to participate in this annual event which alternates between the two venues every other year. Outstanding play on the cricket ground and all- around good fellowship was the order of the weekend culminating in a well attended banquet at the Merion Cricket Club.

TWO CRICKET BLAZERS AND TWO CRICKET TOURS: by Kenneth H. Ross:

I had heard about the C.C. Morris Cricket Library and so decided to visit what sounded like a most unique treasure housed on the campus of Haverford College. While there I noticed fourteen blazers displayed on the wall and my eye was drawn especially to two of the blazers just to the right of center. One was a solid green blazer with a pocket emblem representing an Eastern Canadian Cricket team that toured Western Canada in 1934, the other was a dark blue, light blue and white striped blazer of the Canadian team that toured England in 1936. I had played on both these teams more than sixty years ago! The blazers had been donated by the widow of Lewis J.H. Gunn of Toronto who had done much to encourage cricket in Canada, particularly among the younger players.

Starting with the first tour, the team from Eastern Canada consisted of L.C. (Clark) Bell; E. (Ted) Carlton; M.I. (“Pepper”) Davies; J.M. Harris; R.S. Hart; E.F. (“Derby”) Loney; RG. McLean; L.A. (Lloyd) Percival; C.C. Radcliffe; K.H. (Ken Ross); J.A.K. Rutherford (Captain)/ J.W. Seagram and P.F. (Phil) Seagram. This team of thirteen players was a very young one since, with the exception of Carlton, Loney, McLean and Rutherford, the players were 23 years of age or younger. Only two of us came from Montreal, namely Davies and myself, the rest were from the Toronto area. The team was under the patronage of the Honorable R.C. Matthews who had been Minister of National Revenue under Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. As will be seen later, Mr. Matthews also paid the expenses of the 1936 tour to England.

The tour was a very successful one as we ended up winning 8 games out of 13 with 5 being drawn. Of the games drawn, the Eastern team was usually far ahead of the Western team at the time stumps were drawn. However our second game, in Winnipeg, was a very close one as we won by only 2 runs. We played 2 games in Manitoba (Winnipeg)/ 1 game in Saskatchewan (Regina); 4 games in Alberta - (2 in Edmonton and 2 in Calgary); and 6 games in British Columbia (3 in Vancouver, 1 in Victoria and 2 in Duncan). Duncan is probably the only city on this list that would not be known to many but it turned out that it was a hot-bed of cricket since a number of its inhabitants were retired British army officers who had found an ideal place in which to live and enjoy their cricket.

The batting average were not spectacular but four of the players made over 350 runs. Three centuries were made: 144 by Lloyd Percival, 108 not out by Clarke Bell and 101 by me. The innings of 144 by Lloyd Percival was a spectacular one. He scored the runs in one hour and forty minutes and, at one time, scored two fours and two sixes on four successive balls. Percival led the averages with 43.18 and total runs with 476.Clarke Bell’s total runs of 441 and average of 40.09 for the tour were only slightly behind the corresponding figures of Lloyd Percival.

In the bowling records, Ted Carlton had the best average of 6.76 taking 38 wickets for 257 runs. Another outstanding bowler was Derby Loney who took 41 wickets for an average of 9.80. Derby Loney also had a fine batting record scoring 357 runs within average of 32.45. Incidentally, both these cricketers had played county cricket in England before moving to Toronto, Ted for Buckinghampshire and Darby for Darbyshire (hence his nickname).

The second tour associated with a blazer was that of the Canadian team under the patronage of the Honorable R.C. Matthews when he took 15 cricketers to England in the Summer of 1936. This was a very successful tour inasmuch as the team won 7 out of the 15 matches scheduled; lost only 1; had 6 drawn; with 1 completely abandoned. Many of the drawn matches and the abandoned one resulted from extremely wet weather as the Summer of 1936 was one of the wettest on record.

The team consisted of L.C. (Clarke) Bell; W.E.N. (Billy) Bell (Captain); D.E. Carey; E. (Ted) Carlton; M.I. (“Pepper”) Davies; RE.F. (“Derby”) Loney; N.F. Pearson; J.G. (Gordon) Percival; L.A. (Lloyd) Percival; R.C. (Ralph) Ripley; K.H. (Ken) Ross; W.G. Scott; C.A. (“Cammy”) Seagram; P.F. (Phil) Seagram; and J.L. Weaver. Of these 10 were from the Toronto area, 2 from Montreall, 2 from Vancouver and 1 from Edmonton, Also 7 of the players had been on the Eastern Canadian team described earlier.

My recollection of the tour is that, as the Canadian team continued to win or else the matches were drawn vry much in our favor, an attempt was made to strengthen the opposing club teams until, in the thirteenth match, we lost our first contest. In our seventh match we had beaten an M.C.C. team at Lords by 76 runs being the first Canadian team to defeat an English XI.

Clarke Bell had by far the best batting average of 45.11 with a high score of 106 not-out. His brother, Billy, the captain, played in all games and scored 461 runs, including a century and had a average of 30.44.

Of the bowlers, Ted Carlton was the best taking 61 wickets for 624 runs at an average of 10.22. Derby Loney was next with an average of 11.95 having taken 46 wickets for 550 runs.

One player from Montreal who was on both the 1934 and 1936 tours was M.I. Davies with the nickname of “Pepper”. He was an outstanding batsman and wicket-keeper and kept Wicket in all these matches as well as on several other occasions for All-Montreal and Eastern Canadian teams. When the M.C.C. toured Canada in 1937 he had an outstanding match playing for an All-Montreal team scoring ll8 not-out. In its review of the tour, Wisden’s for 1938 had this to say “Of the Canadians, M.I. Davies particularly impressed. In the last match, scoring 118, he played the best all-rounder in Canada. Loney (left arm) and Carlton (right) stars of the 1936 team in England, again bowled splendidly.”

(Ken Ross born 1911, Jamaica where he attended boarding school before entering McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1930. He lived in Montreal and played for McGill until 1933 and for Westward Wanderers from 1934 until 1941. Migrating to the Philadelphia area he played for a brief period of time with the General Electric Cricket Club. Ken has played cricket with Si Klein and Al Broadhurst, who along with Ken were mini-featured in our Summer newsletter. He states that his cricket career ended ignominiously with a “duck” in 1942 and that for 53 years he had lost touch with the game. We are glad that he has discovered our Association and reclaimed one of his early loves - THE NOBEL GAME OF CRICKET!)

FIFTH ANNUAL PHILADELPHIA CRICKET FESTIVAL

In the Spring of 1997 the Hampshire Cricket Club from Cheriton, Alresford, England will visit the USA to participate in the three day series. A total of 8 teams will assemble from far and wide to vie for the championship. The Festival is scheduled to begin May 9 through May 11. Those contending for the trophy include teams from around the United States and overseas.

We will advise you at a future date of the particulars of this competition which is rapidly gaining the reputation of a four-star cricket tournament. Plan to attend and support the contenders!

TELEVISION, VCR AND CRICKET VIDEOS

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have videos of the USA - Canada Match, World Cup Series with action of Western Hemisphere teams performing, North American Festivals and teams of note from the West Indies in our collection? This is something new we can promote for the preservation of cricket, the education and pleasure of our members.

Recently, the C.C. Morris Cricket Library Association received a generous gift of a console combination television and VCR. Visitors and members of the Library will be able to view video tapes from our growing collection of all levels of cricket play as well as our regular monthly video magazine Cover Point. The timely arrival of this valued equipment coincides with the recent gift given to us by Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club of five one-day tapes of the Sahara Cup International Matches between India and Pakistan held this past September before 50,000 eager followers of the game in Canada. These tapes are a unique addition to our collection in that the series was played on North American soil. Donation to the Library of any cricket videos will be most welcome.

Videos can be viewed during our normal operating hours: Monday and Friday 1:00 to 4:00 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM to Noon and by special appointment. It is always advisable to call prior to visiting (610)-896-1162 for time confirmation and film availability.

REMINDER

The highly successful Connecticut Cricket Classic continues to flourish. If you wish more information or would like to participate in this series contact:
Mr. Al Watson
Connecticut Cricket Classic - Box #57, Hartford, CT 06141
Telephone #(203)-658-4383

ACQUISITIONS

During 1996 we received a quantity new additions for the Library and the Collection. Many, many ties have been given to what is becoming a very extensive necktie collection. Perhaps, one-of-these-days we will have completed, for pictorial documentation and authentic identification description, a printed manual available for viewing and purchase distribution. Our sincere thanks to our Curator, Al Little, who is painstakingly working on this valuable collection. Some other contributions to the Library, just to name a few that have not been previously mentioned are:

E. Rotan (Tanny) Sargent, one of the Association’s original members and former Curator of the Library and Collection bequeathed to the Library three Blazers: XL Club of England, Merion Cricket Club and Merioneth Cricket Club of Wales along with miniature bats, emblems, ties, caps, cricket memorabilia and memories over-flowing to enrich our collection of cricket lore. His treasures are now part of our inventory.

Mary Alice McClendon donated various trophies, photographs and cricket memorabilia belonging to her father George W. Cupit, Jr. former member of Germantown Cricket Club and talented cricketer.

Reverend Harry Krauss thoughtfully deposited with us several books from his own personal collection of cricket literature.

David Studham, from the Melbourne Cricket Club, Australia, visited our Library and presented us with memorabilia from “down under”. He was highly appreciative of the quality of our collection.

James Williams, a new member and avid cricketer, kindly contributed an autographed miniature souvenir bat signed by the entire team of the Sri Lanka World Cup Champions. A most generous gesture.

James White, sent us an EMU Club Report entitled: Who said Young Emus Can’t Fly - the coverage of five Emu Schoolboy overseas Tours including one to Argentina.

GERALD M.D. HOWAT

World-famous cricket writer, historian and orator, visited our Library, October 5, 1996 where a well attended Reception was held in his honor. Dr. Howat addressed the gath- ering with a most enlightening talk about recent developments on the cricketing scene in England. A question and answer session was followed by dessert and cider.

As a contribution to our Newsletter Gerald Howat has written the following: “Hugh de Selincourt, whose classics of cricket fiction belong to the escapist literature of the 1930s, would drive round the lanes of Sussex and Hampshire kit in his car just in case he came upon a match where one side or other was short. I was less prepared last October when the summons came from Merion a few hours before I was due to fly down to Kentucky. Hastily, Amar Singh produced a kit and I was able to appear. Yet I should have learnt my lesson for a similar summons had come in 1984 in Bangkok, soon after I had arrived there to give me my only cricketing performance in the Far East.

But my game at Merion provided the greater thrill. Forty-one years after I had last played on the western side of the Atlantic I was able to do so again - and make my North American debut. For my cricket in the 1950s had been in the West Indies - playing in Trinidad in the same oil-company side as Learie Constantline, whose biographer I would later become. The coconut wicket at Merion took me back to those games in Trinidad though, at the ground at Pointe-a-Pierre, the authorities were experimenting with grass wickets. Such must happen in present-day US cricket if a national team can aspire to the World Cup in the future - the ultimate aim for Association members of the International Cricket Council.

To play at Merion was to tread the turf of history. There, in those halcyon days of Philadelphian cricket, great contests had taken place at an international level against Australian and English teams on equal terms. There, had played Plum Warner, whose biographer I would also be. With the poet Gray, I had enjoyed ‘pleasure at the helm’”.

(Gerald Howat is the author of eight cricket books and writes on cricket for the Daily Telegraph, the Cricketer International and Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. He has played MCC cricket and currently sits on the MCC Arts and Library Committees.)

HAVERFORD COLLEGE CRICKET TEAM

After an astonishing most successful undefeated tour of Great Britain - May 22 through June 2, 1996 - the team reassembled in September. Six of their members had graduated in June and new players were recruited while the veterans honed their skills. Only two games were scheduled for the Fall competitions. September 14 the College team played the British Officers with the score standing at 120 Haverford, 105 BOCC. September 29 the team battled Merion with the results being 180 Haverford, 120 Merion. The victors have once again established themselves as worthy competitors. We shall look forward to the Spring Cricket season with great anticipation.

Meanwhile, 1996 Tour Chairman, Amar Singh, has received a letter from 10 Dowing Street, whose principal occupant is an avid cricket fan, congratulating the team on its performance but regretting the improved standard of the game in the U.S. which poses and ominous threat to the originators of the game in the home country!

Incidentally, to commorate the success of the tour, an exhibit was on display in the main Magill Library during November. It attracted considerable interest from students and many parents particularly on Haverford’s “Parent’s Day”.

LAWRENCE FORMAN AWARD

Was created by family and friends in 1991 to honor Larry who excelled in athletics at Haverford and later went on to a career in social service, including relief work over- seas. His untimely death occurred in Thailand in 1985. The Award honors similarly- gifted individuals whose athletic career in college and subsequent devotion to serving society was reminiscent of Larry Forman who graduated from Haverford in 1960. This year the Award was presented to Amar Singh‘54. Outstanding athlete in Cricket, Soccer and Fencing friend of Haverford, Counselor to students and one who has played a major role in a diversity of organizations in the Philadelphia area. A well- deserved honor for a most modest recipient.

Amar was also recently selected to be on the Advisory Board of the United States Cricket Federation along with Andrew Coad, Sir Hubert Doggart, Lord Wedgwood, Sir Richard Hadlee, Dusty Miller and Peter Short.

THE GENTLEMEN OF PHILADELPHIA

A GOP (Gentlemen of Philadelphia) team will participate in the Durham Invitational International Cricket Tournament in August 1997 in Durham England. Other teams will come from England, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and South Africa. We expect the GOP to put together a competitive side and those interested in being considered for selection should contact Craig Joss, telephone: (610)-658-2000 or fax (610)-658-0295. The cost is estimated at $850 per player and $150 less for guests. We suggest you put in your request early. The tournament will be from July 29 to August 10, 1997 and includes a village match against a local Durham side - The Philadelphia Cricket Club (sic)!

Readers might be interested in a ditty we came across in The American Cricketer of 1884 when the touring Gentlemen of Philadelphia side defeated a strong Gloucester XI at Cheltenham - a game watched by W.G.’s mother with keen interest as both her sons W.G. and E.M. were playing. An avid supporter of the GOP, a Mr. Gale, sent the following telegram to Cheltenham from the Oval:
“Yankee Doodle came to town, for cricket not for races, knocked the Gloucester wickets down, and out go both the Graces”

ASSOCIATION NECKTIES

At the moment we are completely sold out of the C.C. Morris Cricket Library Association ties. New ties are being designed and will be ordered sometime soon - this time with the stripes going the right way! We shall advise of availability when our stock has been replenished.

KWIK CRICKET

The Hynes-Willanuer School on Thompson Island, off-shore, Boston has ordered a Kwik Cricket set. We will look forward to hearing how they progress with this (for them) new endeavor. Anyone interested in obtaining Kwik Cricket equipment may do so through the Cricket Library or by ordering directly from: Sportime - One Sportime Way - Atlanta, GA 30340-1402 Telephone #(800)-444-5700 - Kwik Cricket Order #: 1-61980-01F - price $132.95 The plastic set contains: 2 wickets, 2 bats (28 1/2”L/17.75 oz & 301/2”L/19.5 oz). Two 2.5 ounce (soft) Safety Cricket balls, Carry Bag and instructions. Please be aware there may be a prolonged waiting period while Sportime “back orders” which has happen to items ordered from this organization through the Library.

Advertising promotion says: Kwik Cricket was designed in England to safely teach the game of Cricket to young novice participants. Quote: “If you ever thought Cricket was boring, you’ve never seen it played by a group of US sixth graders. It was difficult to get them to stop.”

VISITORS

The Cricket Library has had many visitors throughout 1996 and we have been most pleased with their reception of our collection. The following, random, selection of names will give you a mini-idea of how far and wide our guests have travelled.


ADDITIONS

Our special thanks to Sanjay Santhamam for presenting us with a copy of the 1996 Handbook of Northern California Cricket Association. Please come and peruse this extremely well-produced compendium of current cricket in California replete with highly amusing anecdotes. Thank you Sanjay!

CORRECTIONS

Spelling in the Summer Newsletter under Notable Cricketers - Kenneth H. Ross. Ken, attended McGill University in Montreal (not Magill as previously stated).

PLEASE NOTE: Earlier Listings of the C.C. Morris Cricket Library Internet code were incorrect the proper code to active the Web site is:

http://www.haverford.edu/library/cricket/CCMORRIS.HTM

WELL PLAYED SIR

T. SPENCER HAND: graduated from Haverford College in 1949 and went on to receive a master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in Library Science from Drexel University. When the Cricket Library was in its fledgling stage Spencer Hand generously gave of his time and expertise in cataloguing the books and setting up the general operation of a functioning library, we are forever in his debt. A member of the Alumni Varsity Club of Haverford College he was greatly respected by all. We apologize to his widow, Catherine, for this delayed acknowledgement of the loss of a good friend in June of 1993.

Compiled by C.Babb: Edited by Amar Singh: Printed & Mailed: November 26. 1996